This is how you lost me. You gave me flat characters powered by preoccupations with sex and body parts, especially bushy hair, peppered the prose with Spanish words that were often slangy or derogatory, and allowed superficial, albeit energetic, descriptions of shallow thoughtlessness to masquerade...
Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2012/12/this-is-how-you-lose-her-by-junot-diaz.htmlI don’t like short stories at all. But since Junot Diaz is Junot Diaz I had to read this collection of short stories if just to say that I have read all of her books (three so far). This is how you lose is not a nove...
I had the honour of attending Junot Diaz's author talk late last month here in Vancouver. He was reading excerpts from the first three of the short stories in this book (The Sun, The Moon, The Stars; Nilda and Alma). I was honestly struck by how emphatically he read his own stories, even more impres...
If the art of writing proses as if they were every day conversation was hard, then this is a winner. However, I am not sure if the author was trying to be clever or did he actually intended his short stories to sound like plain dialogue.It reads well but can sound repetitive after the 3 or 4th story...
Holy cannoli on a flying Popsicle stick. I never got around to reading Oscar Wao mostly because I never got around to it and a little because I was concerned that I simply wouldn't be able to relate to a story about a nerdy teenage boy living in what Diaz himself describes as the ghetto. But, I hear...
Beautiful heartbreak. Funny, smart, short - it's better than Oscar Wao, for those who want to know. It's a series of interconnected (loosely) short stories about failed relationships and it is just as raw, sad, hopeful, hurtful, challenging, simple, etc as failed relationships tend to be in your o...
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